Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard {was: Re: [uf-discuss] Authoritative hCards [was RE: Canonical hCards (was: Search on CSS element)]}

[David Janes]

On 1/31/07, Ben Ward <lists at ben-ward.co.uk> wrote:
> We are voting only on the use of @rel="me self" to reference an
> authoritative hCard that parsers should follow.
>
> e.g.
>
> <div class="vcard">
>    <a class="fn url" href="http://ben-ward.co.uk/about" rel="me
> self">Ben Ward</a>
> </div>

Just to be 100% pedantically clear:

(Part I)

If Ben puts this on his home page, parsers look at
"http://ben-ward.co.uk/" will know to look for an authoritative hCard
because of these two things:

1. there's a vcard
2. it has a "url" link with rel="me self"

(Part II -- implication)

If Ben places a vcard on a random page with
url="http://ben-ward.co.uk/", a consumer can optionally look there to
find an authoritative hCard.

The 80-20 rule covers the case where we would want to have more than
one authoritative hCard per page (i.e. it's not that common)

(Part III - rel-self)

We're getting the definition of rel-self from here [1]: "self: the
feed itself". It's a small stretch, but I just did some searching for
counter-examples (i.e. where rel-self doesn't point to the best URI
for a feed) and came up empty.

(Part IV -- the word authoritative)

I can't think of a better word. See definition 2 here [2]

So +1

Regards, etc...

[1] http://atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#link
[2] http://www.answers.com/authoritative&r=67

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